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Commit d3d40f23 authored by Mark Tomlinson's avatar Mark Tomlinson Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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Revert "netfilter: x_tables: Switch synchronization to RCU"

This reverts commit cc00bcaa.

This (and the preceding) patch basically re-implemented the RCU
mechanisms of patch 78454473

. That patch was replaced because of the
performance problems that it created when replacing tables. Now, we have
the same issue: the call to synchronize_rcu() makes replacing tables
slower by as much as an order of magnitude.

Prior to using RCU a script calling "iptables" approx. 200 times was
taking 1.16s. With RCU this increased to 11.59s.

Revert these patches and fix the issue in a different way.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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